Makan-ing at Mamak

Hi all! Charlie here. So as you already know, we had our first Malaysian food experience as a group at Mamak. Yeah I know, not very innovative; going to the most popular Malaysian restaraunt in Sydney. But it has to be popular for a reason, right?

So we turned up kind of late, avoiding the peak dinner period, and we got a table straight away. Score! After some idle chit-chat, we all admitted that we were starving and would prefer to order as soon as possible. I let the experts do their magic, myself not knowing half the menu. I'll go through some of the dishes that we ate and what I thought about it. And in an attempt to seem like a boss, I will also give ratings on each dish. The scale will be 1-10, 1 being disgusting and 10 being delicious, simple.

The food came out pretty fast, so points to that aspect; the first dish to come out was Maggi Goreng.

From what I was told, this is a very popular dish and it's basically a Malaysian fried noodle dish; I assume, using Maggi noodles. This was pretty damn good. The noodles were well cooked and chewy and the flavour was a kind of spicy tangy combination. I liked it - 8/10.

Almost immediately after, the waiter brought out this intriguing dish called Rojak.

What is this strange mountain you ask? Well it was actually a salad topped with peanut sauce and topped again with fried wonton skin (forgive me if I'm wrong...). The peanut sauce complemented the fresh salad very tasteful way; there was this sweet aftertaste from both the veges and sauce. The wonton skin was good as usual; just fried wonton skin (always good). I liked this dish even more - 9/10.

The third one came out shortly after we demolished the first 2, and it was a simple curry chicken and coconut rice dish called Nasi Lemak. To be completely honest I am very impressed with myself for remembering all the names.

As you can see, it is curry chicken, anchovies, satay sauce, peanuts and cucumbers. It is amazing how good it tastes when you eat all these ingredients together. This is actually thinking on another level. Whoever thought of eating peanuts with anchovies? Must be a genius of some sort. The flavours were all very simple, yet complex with together. 8/10.

The last 2 dishes came. As I said in a previous post, I always order roti and satay... I didn't lie.

Roti was fluffy. Curry was fragrant. Satay sauce was good. Meat was good. Nuff said. 9/10. 

In terms of drink, I was egged on to try a malaysian milk tea called Teh Tarik. To be honest, I didn't like it. The texture was fluffy and smooth, but it was just WAY too sweet. Being not much of a sweet tooth, I opted to giving away my drink to Derwin. 

There were also desserts! But I'll give someone else the opportunity to talk about it. Cue Derwin. 

Charlie checkin out.